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====== Where Do We Go From Here? ====== | ====== Where Do We Go From Here? ====== | ||
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===== Concessions ===== | ===== Concessions ===== | ||
- | Like any settlement, both sides give up something in order to end their legal dispute. In Axanar' | + | As with any settlement, both sides give up something in order to end their legal dispute. In Axanar' |
In most respects, however, the short version of //Axanar// will have to follow those guidelines. In the days since the January 20, 2017, settlement details emerged about what Peters will be permitted to do, even as fresh questions were raised. | In most respects, however, the short version of //Axanar// will have to follow those guidelines. In the days since the January 20, 2017, settlement details emerged about what Peters will be permitted to do, even as fresh questions were raised. | ||
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+ | ==== Overstepping Copyright? ==== | ||
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+ | Within days of the settlement Axanar began equivocating about one of the its central terms — Peters' | ||
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+ | > Axanar and Mr. Peters acknowledge that both [Axanar] films were not approved by Paramount or CBS, and that both works crossed boundaries acceptable to CBS and Paramount relating to copyright law. | ||
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+ | On Facebook, where Axanar supporters worked to characterize the settlement as a qualified victory by a lone brave man facing two giant corporations, | ||
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+ | //**__« Hey, any fight you can walk away from. … Okay, Axanar is taking a black eye on length; but the story gets told. »__**// — //Axanar fan Keith Clarke// | ||
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+ | Axanar supporter Colin Krapp, had posted on Facebook: | ||
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+ | > We have no idea what was actually said [by Peters] … only what CBS and Paramount said in their release. Anything else is conjecture.(([[face> | ||
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+ | Krapp substantiated his claim citing Axanar spokesman Mike Bawden: | ||
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+ | > I checked with Mike Bawden. … According to him, the "joint statement" | ||
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+ | === Alternative Facts === | ||
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+ | **AxaMonitor** contacted Bawden to confirm Peters' | ||
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+ | **Bawden**: I can’t comment on internal details related to the suit or how it was resolved. … I can say there was a statement sent out by PR representatives for the plaintiff and there was a separate statement Axanar Productions released to the press and posted to social media. There was also a more detailed statement provided to backers. That’s really all I have to say on the matter. \\ | ||
+ | **AxaMonitor**: | ||
+ | **Bawden**: I can’t understand why you can’t/ | ||
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+ | === The Upside for Axanar === | ||
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+ | Except Axanar' | ||
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+ | == Out of Money == | ||
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+ | Why would he do so? Bawden refused to say more on the topic, leaving only speculation that this was an effort to minimize the damage to Peters' | ||
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+ | //**__« You're acceding to everything you were initially against and calling it a " | ||
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+ | ==== No Payments? ==== | ||
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+ | Also left unclear was whether Axanar managed to avoid paying the studios any sort of damages. An Ars Technica article by Megan Geuss, widely shared on social media and quoted by other news sites, stated unequivocally: | ||
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+ | > A spokesperson from Axanar told Ars Technica in an e-mail “we’re not paying anything, | ||
+ | Axanar says it’s “not paying anything, | ||
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+ | > I have no idea where that statement came from; the official spokespeople for Axanar Productions didn’t provide that information and won’t confirm or deny it now. Sorry. We just can’t talk about it.((Email from Mike Bawden to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 1/20/17.)) | ||
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+ | > I was the one who told [Ars Technica] that Axanar wasn't paying damages. However, my information was incomplete having not been privy to the settlement agreement. … I spoke out of turn. This information is known only to the litigants and their legal representatives.((Email from Morey Altman to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 1/21/17.)) | ||
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==== Director on Board? ==== | ==== Director on Board? ==== | ||
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> I've been out of the loop on the actual settlement. … I don't really know. I'm cutting a feature right now, and then I start work on a series plus I have more special feature work coming up.((Facebook private message from Robert Meyer Burnett to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 1/21/17.)) | > I've been out of the loop on the actual settlement. … I don't really know. I'm cutting a feature right now, and then I start work on a series plus I have more special feature work coming up.((Facebook private message from Robert Meyer Burnett to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 1/21/17.)) | ||
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=== Making an Axanar Short === | === Making an Axanar Short === | ||
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Fans' reactions varied, with some proclaiming victory at the chance of seeing //Axanar// onscreen in any form, even as a short film: | Fans' reactions varied, with some proclaiming victory at the chance of seeing //Axanar// onscreen in any form, even as a short film: | ||
- | > Hey any fight you can walk away from. … Okay, Axanar is taking a black eye on length; but the story gets told. | + | > Hey any fight you can walk away from. … Okay, Axanar is taking a black eye on length; but the story gets told. OK OK some folks are complaining about Axanar Productions not delivering … but … ya can’t always get what you want but if ya try sometimes you just might find you get what ya need (Rolling Stones). AXANAR tried, //Prelude// is amazing and is now a standard for independent sci-fi movies.(([[http:// |
- | OK OK some folks are complaining about Axanar Productions not delivering … but … ya can’t always get what you want but if ya try sometimes you just might find you get what ya need (Rolling Stones). AXANAR tried, //Prelude// is amazing and is now a standard for independent sci-fi movies.(([[http:// | + | |
Others, however, bristled at the constraints to which Peters agreed: | Others, however, bristled at the constraints to which Peters agreed: | ||
> You're acceding to everything you were initially against and calling it a " | > You're acceding to everything you were initially against and calling it a " | ||
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==== Professional Actors ==== | ==== Professional Actors ==== | ||
- | The guidelines prohibit the use of, and paying for, professional actors to appear in a fan production. The settlement, however, made specific | + | The guidelines prohibit the use of, and paying for, professional actors to appear in a fan production. The settlement, however, made specific |
However, none of those actors publicly stated whether they would appear in a much-shorter //Axanar//, and fans weren' | However, none of those actors publicly stated whether they would appear in a much-shorter //Axanar//, and fans weren' | ||
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> While I'm glad they can still use the intended actors, what exactly will they get to act? With the limit on time and the "have to follow the guidelines" | > While I'm glad they can still use the intended actors, what exactly will they get to act? With the limit on time and the "have to follow the guidelines" | ||
- | ==== Overstepping Copyright? | + | ===== Delivering Perks ===== |
- | What appeared | + | While CBS' fan film guidelines explicitly forbid productions from offering physical perks if they want to avoid copyright litigation, |
- | > Axanar | + | > Donors will get the DVD/ |
- | On Facebook, | + | [{{ : |
- | > We have no idea what was actually said … only what CBS and Paramount said in their release. Anything else is conjecture.(([[face> | + | ===== Looking for a Loophole? ===== |
- | Krapp substantiated his claim citing what he was told by Axanar | + | Peters also moved to assuage fans' disappointment and anger over the limitation of //Axanar//'s story to 30 minutes, hinting at a loophole enabling him to deliver more than that. Peters responded to one Indiegogo contributor who demanded a refund because of his inability to deliver the promised feature film: |
- | > I checked with Mike Bawden. … According to him, the "joint statement" | + | > Axanar will be providing 90 minutes of content as we said we would. Because we can only produce 30 minutes of new Star Trek Fan Film content under the legal settlement, we will be providing other Axanar |
- | Asked whether | + | He elaborated on his own blog: |
- | perks | + | > While we’ll comply with the requirements of limiting our fan film to two 15-minute segments, there will be more content that we know our fans will love on the DVDs/ |
- | Funding | + | ==== Devious ==== |
+ | On the Axanar blog, another fan asked Peters if had plans to get around the settlement' | ||
+ | > The Axanar Team has something in their sleeves, right? There could be something like another 2×15 minutes fan project with just rendered space battles between the Federation and the Klingon Empire in the Axanar timeline. Nothing wrong with that, right? And if some anonymous fan would edit these two together in a way that they were fitting… hmm…(([[http:// | ||
- | ==== No Payments? ==== | + | Peters' |
+ | > I can neither confirm nor deny that we think as deviously as you. 🙂(([[http:// | ||
- | ===== Looking for a Loophole? | + | ===== Financial Review |
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- | "90 mins of content" | + | |
+ | Meanwhile, the promised report from what Peters called an " | ||
+ | **AxaMonitor** reported that committee members admitted their review only examined the financial records Peters gave them, which he described as only a " | ||
- | ===== Out of Money ===== | + | ==== Expected Scrutiny |
- | ==== Financial Review ==== | + | Given the limited scope of the committee' |
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